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Wood, steel, green glass, geometric and floral ornaments, and impressive industrial equipment. All under the same roof, you better believe it!

Maybe the most eye-catching item is the control panel, enclosed in a rectangular framework, with rounded edges and embossed or debossed geometric decorations. Triangular ornaments consist of  spiral decorations with reference to water. The control panel consists of marble rectangular panels, acting as a good electric insulator.  Now, let me share with you a secret: the framework had been out of sight for a long time but it was brought to light during the restoration process that the plant went through in order to accommodate this museum. 

The design with the location of pumps, related installations and water tanks, dating back to 1913, bears the stamp of  Teudloff-Dittrich, the armatures, pumps and gas installation company from Budapest.

The pumps are not the original ones; they were replaced between 1959 and 1960, following a retrofitting process. If you take a look out of the window, you can see an underground tank where water treated in the iron removal room was stored.

Same as today, the water pumping system in Timisoara was controlled during periods of low and peak consumption levels.  In order to counterbalance the needed volume of water during peak consumption periods, and also to supply the city for 3 or 4 hours during downtime, at both ends of the network, in 1912 and in 1914, two water towers were built, one in Iosefin and one in Fabric, having a storage capacity of 500 cubic meters, each. Plus, the water tower from Iosefin had a 250 cubic meter tank for storing river water from Bega, and used for industrial purposes by the factories from that neighborhood.  The water castles were 24/7 guarded by employees who used to live inside.  Today, the water towers are listed as historical monuments of Timisoara. 

As for water distribution, today, everything is automatically controlled by the simple push of a control button. And if in 1914, the network was 87 kilometer long, today, it measures over  750 kilometers, and still enlarging. Moreover, today’s supply network is no longer ramified; it is a circular or ring system which ensures even pressures and flows citywide. 

Since 2010, the water company, Aquatim, has become a regional operating company for water supply and sewerage services covering the area of Timis county. Under the leadership of engineer Ilie Vlaicu, the general director of Aquatim since 1999, the company has flourished.  If at the beginning, in 1914, the services provided by the company covered around  50.000 clients, in 2023 Aquatim served over half a million inhabitants. Plus, the initiative to create this museum was also linked to the name of the director Ilie Vlaicu.